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Police misconduct in Northern Ireland
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The list Police misconduct in Northern Ireland includes
Billy McCaughey, John Weir (loyalist), Pat Finucane (solicitor), Battle of the Bogside and Robert Hamill.
The list consists of 18 members
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Billy McCaughey
Special Patrol Group (RUC) officer; Northern Ireland loyalist paramilitary
Overview: William McCaughey (c. 1950 – 8 February 2006) was a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary's Special Patrol Group and the illegal Ulster Volunteer Force's Glennane gang in the 1970s. He was imp ...
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John Weir (loyalist)
Royal Ulster Constabulary officerOverview: John Oliver Weir (born 1950) is an Ulster loyalist born in the Republic of Ireland. He served as an officer in Northern Ireland's Royal Ulster Constabulary's (RUC) Special Patrol Group (SPG) (an anti- ... 0
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Loughinisland massacre
1994 mass shooting of a pub in Loughinisland, Northern Ireland during the Troubles
Overview: The Loughinisland massacre took place on 18 June 1994 in the small village of Loughinisland, County Down, Northern Ireland. Members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), a loyalist paramilitary group, burst ... 0
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Noel Doherty
Northern Irish loyalist activistOverview: Noel Doherty (26 December 1940 – 26 December 2008) was a Northern Irish loyalist activist who was close to Ian Paisley during Paisley's early years in politics. He served as leader of the Ulster Protestant ...Date of birth: 26 December 1940Date of death: 26 December 2008Age: 68 (age at death)Nationality: IrishOccupation: Critic 0
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Robert Hamill
British murder victimOverview: Robert Hamill was a Northern Irish Catholic man who was beaten to death by a loyalist mob in Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Hamill and his friends were attacked on 27 April 1997 on the town's ...Date of death: 1997Nationality: Irish 0
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Pat Finucane (solicitor)
Irish lawyer (1949–1989)
Overview: Patrick Finucane (21 March 1949 – 12 February 1989) was an Irish lawyer primarily specialising in criminal defence work, who was well known for defending members of the Irish Republican Army. He was killed ... 0
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Battle of the Bogside
Communal riot that took place from 12 to 14 August 1969 in Derry, Northern Ireland
Overview: The Battle of the Bogside was a large three-day riot that took place from 12 to 14 August 1969 in Derry, Northern Ireland. Thousands of Catholic/Irish nationalist residents of the Bogside district, or ...Release date: 24 March 2004Genre: DocumentaryDirector: Vinny CunninghamCast: Sir Kenneth Bloomfield, James Callaghan, Gregory Campbell, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Nell McCafferty, Eamonn McCannProducer: Vinny Cunningham, Farah DurraniWriter: John Peto 0
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1997 Northern Ireland riots
Mass protests during the Troubles
Overview: From 6 to 11 July 1997 there were mass protests, fierce riots and gun battles in Irish nationalist districts of Northern Ireland. Irish nationalists/republicans, in some cases supported by the Provisional ... 0
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Special Patrol Group (RUC)
Irish reserve unit
Overview: The Special Patrol Group (SPG) of the Royal Ulster Constabulary was a tactical reserve of 310 officers which had the role: "to provide support to divisional policing both uniform and CID, to police in ... 0
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10.Overview: James Mitchell (1920 – May 2008) was an Ulster loyalist and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) Reserve officer who provided a base and storage depot for the Glenanne gang at his farm at Glenanne, near Mo ... 0
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Glenanne gang
secret informal alliance of Ulster loyalists active in the 1970s
Overview: The Glenanne gang or Glenanne group was a secret informal alliance of Ulster loyalists who carried out shooting and bombing attacks against Catholics and Irish nationalists in the 1970s, during the Tr ... 0
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1991 Drumbeg killings
March 1991 loyalist gun attack in Northern Ireland
Overview: On 28 March 1991 a member of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), a loyalist paramilitary group, shot dead three Catholic civilians at a mobile shop in Craigavon, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The gunman ... 0
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Reavey and O'Dowd killings
Gun attacks in 1976 in Northern Ireland
Overview: The Reavey and O'Dowd killings were two coordinated gun attacks on 4 January 1976 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Six Catholic civilians died after members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), an Ulster ... 0
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Drumcree conflict
Northern Ireland dispute over parades
Overview: The Drumcree conflict or Drumcree standoff is a dispute over yearly parades in the town of Portadown, Northern Ireland. The town is mainly Protestant and hosts numerous Protestant/loyalist marches each ... 0
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Overview: The Charlemont pub attacks were co-ordinated militant Loyalist paramilitary attacks on two pubs in the small village of Charlemont, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, carried out by the Ulster Volunteer ... 0
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16.Overview: The Glenanne gang or Glenanne group was a secret informal alliance of Ulster loyalists who carried out shooting and bombing attacks against Catholics and Irish nationalists in the 1970s, during the Tr ... 0
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Arnon Street killings
Killing of CatholicsOverview: The Arnon Street killings, also referred to as the Arnon Street murders or the Arnon Street massacre, took place on 1 April 1922 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Six Catholic civilian men and boys, three ... 0
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McMahon killings
1922 murder of a family in BelfastOverview: The McMahon killings or the McMahon murders occurred on 24 March 1922 when six Catholic civilians were shot dead at the home of the McMahon family in Belfast, Northern Ireland. A group of police officers ... 0
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